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From the Washington Post: Bad news for all those baby boomers starting to pile on the pounds as they go through middle age: You don’t have to be obese — just a little overweight — to increase your risk of dying prematurely, according to a large government study. The 10-year study of more than 500,000 […] From Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) – It’s not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court. Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp., is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing […] Wow. Email I just sent to Romenesko: Okay, I’m sitting here in an Internet cafe in Nelson, New Zealand, rather stunned at what the blogosphere has wrought. First Dan Rather, now the news chief of CNN? Whether or not we agree with what happened, mainstream reporters need to start paying a lot more attention to […] I’ve been following this whole “Easongate” scandal with a little bit of awe. (In case you haven’t been following it, here‘s the post that started it all. Apparently CNN Chief News Executive Jordan Eason told a global forum in Davos that a dozen journalist deaths in Iraq were not “collateral damage” but had been […] It was to be a mind-altering experience: Three years, three months and three days spent in silence in a remote desert valley, meditating on the great mysteries of life and praying for an end to war and suffering. But now the experiment for world peace has gone wrong. One of the participants is dead after being kicked out of “great retreat” amid accusations he and his wife had engaged in bizarre, spiritually inspired domestic violence. […] Chicago Tribune workplace columnist Rex Huppke wrote an obituary for “facts” the other day that is getting a lot of attention. I thought it might be interesting to examine some of the facts he cites. Though few expected Facts to pull out of its years-long downward spiral, the official cause of death was from injuries […] Does yoga cause strokes? New York Times science reporter William J. Broad has certainly been making the case that it does. In his new book “The Science of Yoga,” Broad makes the case that yoga is associated with rare type of strokes caused by either cartoid or vertebral artery dissection — tears in one of […] It’s hard to imagine a more talked-about magazine article in recent years than Hannah Rosin’s 2010 essay in The Atlantic prophesying ““The End of Men.” Guys, she argued, are just not cut out for the New Economy and are being surpassed by women. The proposition has inspired a lot of debate, a forthcoming book by […] I have a math/probability question that I can’t figure out, and I need your help. Not only can I not figure it out, I can’t even think sensibly about it. I am in a fantasy football league where the top four teams make the playoffs, based on head-to-head matchups over the first 15 weeks of […] I am one of these people who will do a lot of research to win an argument. Like sometimes a lot of research. Actually of course with Google, Google Books and Google News’ archive search, research can pretty easy. It’s surprising how many people won’t do any research and will just rely on ideology to […] Reason to love NY #681: Little kids handing out water to runners in Central Park for no reason — other than it's hot http://yfrog.com/6bgsjj # I’m at Professor Thom’s (219 2nd Ave, btw 13th & 14th, New York). http://bit.ly/Zambs # Epic Red Sox /Yanks game. Could decide season. Make or break. Let’s go SOX! # Any stalkers out there wanna be quoted? RT @annajobratton Do you track your S.O. using GPS? Does he/she know abt it? Email news_tips@ap.org. in reply to annajobratton # So excited to be getting off work at a reasonable hour!! (not sarcasm!) I have brought back the bike … Considering going drinking. # I’m at […] So spurred some some cheap-o flights to New Zealand, I have booked a ticket for late November, early December. As some of you know I lived there for four years when I was about 11 to 15, and my mother and sister are still there. Periodically I get asked various advice on travel and tourism […] Best line from the 9,000-word piece: I once wrote that the Roger Clemens Era in Toronto was like dumping a girlfriend, then watching her lose 15 pounds, get breast implants and join the cast of “Baywatch.” Well, for me personally, the Manny-Dodgers Era has been like the Clemens scenario, only if she made a […] march Originally uploaded by derek7272 So I keep wanting to do the Tunnel to Towers Run and unfortunately I keep missing it. (Someone needs to come up with a calendar (hopefully with ical-export capacity so you can plug in to Google Calendar) that shows all NYC-area running events, and not just the ones sponsored […] Interesting story from the Boston Globe on male-female ratios in American cities: It’s not just that some places have more singles than others. If you’re a single man or a single woman the odds of meeting that special someone vary dramatically across the country. By far, the best places for single men are the […] I am just getting this in under the wire! I promised to do one every week, and ideally this meant Monday or Tuesday. But maybe it is a good thing I am late. Part of the reason for the delay is that earlier I was v. discouraged on the whole diet front … I was […] toilet training kitties, part 2 Originally uploaded by derek7272 I have given up on toilet training the kitties. The idea was the hole you can see in the photo got larger are larger (there are plastic cut-outs in the Citykitty system), but at a certain point the kitties pretty much just decided to, err, […] Here. Andrew Olmstead was killed by small arms fire in Iraq. This is an entry I would have preferred not to have published, but there are limits to what we can control in life, and apparently I have passed one of those limits. … I suppose I should speak to the circumstances of my death. […] |
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